07 October 2009

Gohmert: Hate Crimes Bill Would Legalize Necrophilia, Bestiality ...

Last night, led by Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), lawmakers convened a special session of floor speeches urging a repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell." Extreme right-wing and anti-gay Texas Republican Rep. Louis Gohmert called Murphy's proposed DADT repeal a "perverse ... social experimentation" and that soldiers were being "held hostage by a sociological attack." Gohmert then launched a bizarre and vitriolic rant that claimed the Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill would lead to legalization of necrophilia, pedophilia, and bestiality. Oh and Nazism, too.

If you're oriented toward animals, bestiality, then, you know, that's not something that can be used, held against you or any bias be held against you for that. Which means you'd have to strike any laws against bestiality, if you're oriented toward corpses, toward children, you know, there are all kinds of perversions, [...] pedophiles or necrophiliacs or what most would say is perverse sexual orientations but the trouble is, we made amendments to eliminate pedophiles from being included in the definition.

Gohmert adds that he is "not a racist" and once voted for Alan Keyes, the extreme anti-gay Republican.

Well Luther I'm not giving any leeway on that. Tyler Texas?????? Oh HELLS to the NO.

But Rod. Just stop and think about this for a minute. Don't you find it strange how all these WHITE congressman who matter in the LGBTQ Community getting anything done. After all they're the ones who pass the bills and our White brethern continues to say that African Americans are more HOMOPHOBIC than anyone else????

Flood his inbox with emails!! These right winged people are afraid because this country is changing too fast for them. Their showing fear....that's why they keep going off on these ignorant sounding rants. Keep the heat on them!

Mr Famu - you're assuming that these folks think logically. They actually are the antithesis of logic. They begin with an ideological belief and then they spend their lives attempting to support that belief. As facts get in the way of their preconceived ideas, they become increasingly hysterical in defense of that flawed system. They are literally living in a fantasy world (more of a nightmare) that is just a house of cards. Such men, troubled as they are have no place in leadership of any Country.

Well, when they scoop a gay soldier's guts back into his dead body after being blown up by an IED device, can the military give him his life back. After all, he wasn't worthy enough to serve the military so he shouldn't have had to lose his life.

What someone should do is bring in a flag draped coffin of a fallen gay serviceman and have it sit there in the middle of the House floor while these disgusting turd heads talk about how perverted people like this fallen soldier are. I think the point would smack viewers right across the jaw.

Wow! That is really insulting for him to compare those things to homosexuality. I don't think they are comparable AT ALL! He really is ignorant and there is just no other way to put it. Completely OUT OF TOUCH!

I wouldn't let these people run an elementary school student government association. Who is voting them into office? And shouldn't congress have some protections in place to kick out people with crazy fringe opinions?

@mr famu - you're right. They do have a remedy though. They could kick him out of congess. The problem is that anyone can say what he said and it not be a big deal. Imagine the repercusions if you were to substitute any other minority group into his raving tirade?

I don't know anybody is shocked by this "argument". He obviously come from the same school of craziness that most other white, socially conservative Congressman attended. He's just trying to "prove" to those "back home" in East Texas that he's there to represent their "values". Hence, why I don't screw with Texas outside of its big 4 (DFW, Houston, SA, Austin) because racism and homophobia is so prevalent moreso than even my part of the Deep South.